[NNTP] [2501] Reader commands in transit servers and vice-versa
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Fri Dec 3 06:00:07 PST 2004
Richard Clayton said:
>> The specific description of each command will describe it as a
>> "transit command", a "reader command", or a "general command". An
>> NNTP server may be "transit-only", "reader-only", or "general-use".
> Calling it "reader only" when you'd expect POST to work (so that end-
> users with normal sorts of existing software can expect to interoperate
> with it usefully) is rather obscure :(
POST is a "reader command".
> Surely you can't mean for people to have lots of "general-use" systems
> since who would wish to implement all of the gubbins around IHAVE (and
> other transit type chatter) just so they can provide POST
This isn't required anywhere.
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